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Feb 01, 2008

http_header("Authorization")

I need the iRule to set persistence based on the “Authorization” value in the HTTP header. On the old version 4 box, I did this by just putting   http_header("Authorization") in the expression fi...
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Feb 05, 2008
The symptoms of the failure were that user sessions were being switched back and forth between the pool members instead of staying on the original server they were connected to. I have run a tcpdump and verified that the Authorization header is present. At this time we’re just using simple IP source persistence, but this could soon become a problem as a lot of users go through proxies and appear to come from the same IP.